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THE SHAPE OF

THE HUNT

JOE PARRINO

SCENE ONE (CHECHEG NARRATION) ATMOS: THE FAINT SOUNDS

OF DRUMS, A BEAT OF FOUR – THE TWIN HEARTBEATS OF A

SPACE MARINE. THESE SHOULD BEAT STEADILY

THROUGHOUT ALL THE CHECHEG-NARRATED

SCENES, EXCEPT AS NOTED IN FX DIRECTIONS

My name is Checheg. Hear it and know the truth of my words and of my life. I

speak for the Chapter. I speak for the storm. I speak for the khan whose life I

ended.

My name is Checheg. The name has meaning. Look for it if you wish. My

armour is the ivory-white of Chogoris.

The scar that defines me crawls down my cheek. I am a son of the Great Khan.

I hear drums, loud and deep. The sound of victory. The khamar are dead. We

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killed them. We have won. We have lit a fire that will scour the khamar, the tau

xenotype. It will never cease burning.

The drums thrum through my ears and echo, long and low along the flatlands.

These sounds widen the smile already stretching across the wind-beaten planes

of my face.

We chased the faithless khamar to this place and gutted them. We taught them

the lessons of the Khan and laughed as we ushered them into the darkness.

FX – ANGRY VOICES, THE WORDS